Security News > 2020 > March > US Needs Top Cyber Coordinator, Better Hacker 'Deterrence': Panel
The US needs a top-level cybersecurity coordinator and a better strategy of "Deterrence" to protect against hackers and other cyber threats, a congressionally mandated commission said Wednesday.
The bipartisan panel which included lawmakers and private sector experts made more than 80 recommendations ranging from reforms in the executive and legislative branches to better cooperation with allies to secure cyberspace.
The panel recommended the establishment of White House cabinet-level "National cyber director" to direct coordination within government and the private sector.
The panel cited the need for a stronger deterrence strategy to demonstrate that attackers in cyberspace would pay a price.
"Today most cyber actors feel undeterred, if not emboldened, to target our personal data and public infrastructure... through our inability or unwillingness to identify and punish our cyber adversaries, we are signaling that interfering in American elections or stealing billions in US intellectual property is acceptable."